By Susan Lulgjuraj | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

These cards came from outer space.

No, really, they did.

Part of the quirkiness of Upper Deck’s 2012 Goodwin Champions is the type of stuff collectors can get beyond sports such as Civil War relics and pieces of meteorites that fell to Earth.

Collectors found redemption cards in boxes of Goodwin Champions for 20 total meteorite cards. Over the last month, these cards sold on eBay anywhere from $100 to $300.

These cards are ready and Upper Deck has given Beckett a look at these unique cards.

The Upper Deck cards offer different shapes of meteorites and details the fragment and place of discovery.

Some of the pieces in the Upper Deck’s “It Came from Outer Space Collection” include the Korra Korrabes meteorite, initially found in Namaland, Namibia in November of 1996. A local farmer discovered the first specimen from this group in a dry riverbed.

Another piece in the collection is a Gibeon meteorite, also found in Namibia. Gibeon meteorites are a classification of fragments that fell in prehistoric times and are considered an iron meteorite. The Nama people used them to make tools and weapons.

Much closer to home, there is a piece from the Canyon Diablo meteorite in Coconino County, Arizona. This asteroid fell about 50,000 years ago and meteorites have been collected for hundreds of years from the crater site.

All the cards have the origin of the meteorite, which could make for a fun history lesson once a collector gets these cards in hand.

Meteorites seem to be a hot topic right now. This Sunday, Heritage Auctions is hosting the largest meteorite auction in the world, offering 125 fragments. Some of these pieces are expected to go for a large amount of money.

Susan Lulgjuraj is an editor of Beckett Sports Card Monthly. You can email her here with questions, comments or ideas. Follow her on Twitter here.

By Chris Olds | Beckett Sports Card Monthly Editor

As a founding member of Apple and the creator of the first Apple computer, Steve Wozniak knows a thing or two about making history.

And with his memorabilia card in 2012 Goodwin Champions? Well, he just might have done it again.

How? Well, his memorabilia cards in the Upper Deck release don’t feature a piece of clothing — nothing that simple. They include a piece of a computer disc — a likely first for the hobby.

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We’re not 110 percent sure it’s a first, just 99 percent sure. There’s a chance, with all the fun stuff cut up through the years and put into cardboard, that this has been done before — but we can’t think of who it would have been for.

This card? Well, it’s not pricey, it’s just fun.

We want to know … what weird memorabilia cards stand out to you?

Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.

Join Beckett Sports Card Monthly‘s Chris Olds and Bryan Hornbeck as they rip into a pair of 2012 Goodwin Champions boxes from Upper Deck in this latest edition of Box Busters.

What will they find? Watch and find out …

By Susan Lulgjuraj | Contributing Editor

Bugs, meteorites and Mars.

That’s not your typical assortment of finds in a hobby box, but Goodwin Champions has never been typical with its hits. This is a product that started a craze with its Entomology Cards where actual bugs were inside shadow boxes.

This year’s Upper Deck Goodwin Champions brings back the entomology cards, but also collectors will have an opportunity to find rocks from meteorites and Mars, and memorabilia pieces from museums, including Civil War and Presidential memorabilia.

This year’s installment is due out in May with 20-pack (five cards in each pack) hobby boxes yielding three hits of either on-card autographs, memorabilia cards, animal kingdom patch cards or printing plates. There are also 10 Goodwin Champions mini and numbered parallels. Early presales are going around $75 a box.

The set won’t be easy to complete. There are 231 cards of different sports figures from over the years, but there are 150 base cards with 40 short-prints, 20 super short-prints and 21 high series minis to complete the set.

The inserts will include: minis, minis with Lady Luck backs, Magician backs (numbered to 10), Presidential backs (1/1), Military Machines and a World Traveler oversized card (one per box).

However, Upper Deck doesn’t end there. For fans of the original, Upper Deck has made it so they would be able to collect the 1888 Goodwin Masterpieces originals, which were 50 hand-painted images.

The Entomology Cards, which have been a big hit for Upper Deck, have returned. In the past, the cards have featured beautiful multi-colored moths, butterflies with spotted wings and a bug that looks like a stick. Fan of these could expect to find more butterflies, beetles and different variations of bugs this year.

Susan Lulgjuraj is a contributing editor for Beckett Media. You can email Susan here. Follow her on Twitter here.